Wood v. E. R. Butterworth & Sons
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Dykeman, J., entered May 20, 1911, upon findings in favor of the defendants, dissolving a temporary injunction restraining the defendants from removing the body of their father to another state for the purpose of burial.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
— Chauncey L. Wood went to the then territory of Dakota in the year 1877. He was a young man just entering upon the practice of the profession of the law. He finally settled at Rapid City, where he made his home up to the time of his death, which occurred in Seattle on January 16th, 1911. Mr. Wood left two sons, the issue of a former marriage. These sons are now residents of the state of South Dakota, and are the defendants in this proceeding. The first wife having died, Mr. Wood remarried in the year 1894. His widow, Bessie F. Wood3> plaintiff, survives him. Mr. Wood was a man of character,…
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